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Faces of War

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Faces of War
Faces of War cover
Developers
Best Way
Publishers
2006-2018 1C Company
2018-2022 1C Entertainment
2022-present Fulqrum Publishing
Engines
GEM 2
Release dates
Windows September 8, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 67
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS
Art styles Realistic
Themes World War II
Series Men of War
Faces of War on HowLongToBeat
Faces of War on IGDB
Faces of War on MobyGames
Faces of War on Wikipedia
Soldiers: Heroes of World War II 2004
Silent Heroes: Elite Troops of WWII 2005
Faces of War 2006
В тылу врага: Диверсанты 2 2006
В тылу врага: Диверсанты 3 2008
Men of War 2009
Men of War: Red Tide 2009
Men of War: Assault Squad 2011
Men of War: Vietnam 2011
Men of War: Condemned Heroes 2012
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 2014
Assault Squad 2: Men of War Origins 2016
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 - Cold War 2019
Men of War II: Arena Cancelled
Men of War II 2024

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Faces of War is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS game in the Men of War series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 4.50 DRM (Russia) or SecuROM 7 DRM (US/EU)
Windows
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Windows
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

v1.04.1 (2006)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\faces of war\profiles\<game-profile-name>\options
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289300/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\faces of war\profiles\<game-profile-name>\save\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289300/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Vert- native. See the WSGF entry for imperfect compensation of this.
Multi-monitor
Vert- native. See the WSGF entry for imperfect compensation of this.
Ultra-widescreen
Vert- native. See the WSGF entry for imperfect compensation of this.
4K Ultra HD
Vert- native. See the WSGF entry for imperfect compensation of this. UI does not scale with resolution and is extremely small in 4K.
Field of view (FOV)
See the WSGF entry
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Up to 16x
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Up to 8x
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Frame rate limited on 100.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Up to 8.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only; download for digital releases.
Polish
Retail only; download for digital releases.
Russian
Spanish
Retail version, download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1, 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz
AMD Athlon 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 3/4/FX/6/7 series
Nvidia GeForce 4 MX is not supported.
Laptop variants of the supported GPUs may work, but are unsupported.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/289300/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (289300) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References